Self Reflection Essay

In this report, the focus will be on my change from High School to the University. I will also touch other points such as, the study skills I acquired during this first term, as well as the first assignments I had to complete, which are a presentation and an essay. In the end of this report, I will also describe my plans for the next teaching block. In order to do this I will need to use three different models on self-reflection which are Kolb 's (1984) model of experimental learning, Gibbs ' (1988) reflective cycle, and Atkins and Murphy 's (1994) model of reflection.

Transition to Higher Education

For this point, I will use Kolb 's (1984) model of experimental learning. Before starting University, I was attending the last year of High School

To explain this subject, I will use Gibbs ' (1988) reflective cycle. During this few months, I was required to use different skills that I acquired until now. For example, in the essay “What is crime?” I had to write in a different way using references, which was a difficult part of the essay. At first I was very nervous because this was my first assignment at University but, however, I knew that I needed to be focused and do my best. It was not easy finding evidence to support my ideas but then, I realise that it was better to find evidence and then built my ideas and opinions on those. When I received the mark I was really proud of myself because I did not know I could get such a high mark in the first essay, moreover if we consider that I am not a native English speaker. The feedback was an important component to the understanding where my work was not good. In this essay, I reckon that there were both good and bad things. The good things were relating to how I answered to the main question, the structure, the introduction and the use of multiple sources; moreover, the writing was clear and well referenced. The bad things, on the other hand, were that some sections did not relate to the question and that the conclusion introduced some new ideas. I was happy with my mark but I could have been more precise about certain points. For the next Teaching Block, I will need to make

As I have just said, the presentation was on a role in criminology. My group had to talk about Forensics and my part was finding a job and explain to my seminar group what it consists of and how to become, in my case, a forensic analyst. Before the presentation, I was calm because I knew that I added everything I could find on the slides, but during the presentation itself, I started to feel quite anxious because I realised that my work was not enough and that there were certain aspects of that particular job that I did not consider. After the presentation, I did not feel proud of myself because I knew that I could have done better. When the presentation was over, the tutor gave us some feedbacks; my biggest problems were that it was not detailed enough and everything was written on the slides so I was reading from the screen. Compared to the other groups, I could have added more information and I could have asked questions to the public, as well as not reading from the screen. This feedback was really useful, especially because two weeks later I had another presentation to do which went really well. In this presentation I used my tutor 's feedback and I was more confident speaking, the slides were neat and not everything was written, therefore I had to study the subject, I also engaged more with the public. Even if this